Proverbs 14:13
Even in sekhok (laughter) the lev is sad, 1 and the acharit (latter end) of that simchah is grief. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
In Context
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, It is mad; and of simchah, What doeth it accomplish?
Ecclesiastes 7:5It is better to hear the rebuke of the chacham, 1 than for an ish to hear the shir kesilim. 1
Luke 16:25But Avraham Avinu said, Beni, have zikaron (recollection) that you received your tov in the span of your days, and El'azar likewise received the ra'ah. But now he is given nechamah (comfort) here, but you, yisurim (sufferings, torments). + 16:25 Ps 17:14
Revelation 18:7As she gave kavod (glory) to herself and lived in luxury, so give her an equal measure of torment and agmat nefesh (grief), because in her lev (heart) she says, ‘I sit as a malkah (queen) and not an almanah (widow), and I will never see agmat nefesh (grief).’ + 18:7 Ezek 28:2-8; Ps 10:6; Isa 47:7,8; Zeph 2:15
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:13
12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. We have here an account of the way and end of a great many self-deluded souls. 1. Their way is seemingly fair: It seems right to themselves; they please themselves with a fancy that they are as they should be, that their opinions and practices are good, and such as will bear them out. The way of ignorance and carelessness, the way of worldliness and earthly-mindedness, the way of sensuality and flesh-pleasing, seem right… Read the whole commentary →